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THE FERRUGINOUS DUCK. 
FULIGULA NyROca (Giildenstadt). 
This species—also called the White-eyed Duck, from the colour 
of its irides—is an irregular visitor to England, principally in winter 
and spring. More than twenty examples have been obtained in 
Norfolk, a few in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Yorkshire, and along the 
Trent valley up to Nottinghamshire ; Northumberland and Lanca- 
shire being each credited with one. Those exposed for sale in the 
London markets are open to the suspicion of having been brought 
from Holland (whence live birds are also sometimes sent); but 
four have been killed near Oxford, one in Dorset, and two in 
Devon ; while a remarkably tame bird was observed on a pond in 
Radnorshire during the latter part of 1858 and up to March 1859. 
In Scotland this Duck has been obtained once (perhaps twice) in 
the Firth of Forth in winter, and two were killed on the Tay early 
in 1857 (W. Evans). In Ireland six occurrences have been noted, 
from January to March inclusive (Ussher). 
The Ferruginous Duck is not known to breed to the north of 
Holland, Schleswig - Holstein, East Prussia, or Moscow, but in 
Poland, Hungary, and Slavonia it is very abundant from April to 
autumn ; on passage it visits the lakes of the Upper Engadine ; and 
it is a resident of general distribution in the southern portions of 
Europe, from Spain to the Volga. It visits the Canaries, nests in 
